Thinkpad R51 Rebuild Help

Hi all,

I had an old R51 from work which I gave to my brother in law. The disks were formatted first (to get rid of any sensitive data) and then the OS (Windows XP) rebuilt.

The machine boots fine, but there are problems with other hardware - no USB ports work (have tested with an external drive, which powers but cannot access) and there are issues with the display. Also the battery doesn't appear to be charging. All these worked fine before.

I suspect this is all related to driver issues, but no problems are reported. Because the drives were formatted, the directory C:/IBMTOOLS is no longer there, so this could be the problem. The BIOS is up to date and everything enabled.

I downloaded a recovery disk from

http://www.user-guides.co.uk/asp/pr...P,Recovery,CD&recor=1&SearchFor=any&PT_ID=all

but that did not resolve the issue.

Can anyone give me advice on how I can rebuild this machine so that all the hardware is working (I am prepared to wipe everything clean and start over!!!).

Many thanks

Rich

 

Go to the Lenovo Support site, put in your model number and find out which hardware you have installed (video chips, modems, wireless, etc). Put the model number in again and download the drivers for your hardware and starting with the chipset drivers, install all of the drivers and you should be good to go.

Keith

 

Did you run PC Doctor?